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Steve McCoy speaks out about Donald Trump “interview” and his Parkinson’s diagnosis

Longtime Atlanta radio host Steve McCoy really did interview Donald Trump – just not as recently as it appeared during what turned out to be his final day on air. He was suspended and then let go from 106.7 this month after revealing he aired an old interview with the presidential candidate, presenting it as if it had just happened.

“Donald Trump was supposed to call us on … and he didn’t,” McCoy said. “I promoted it three times on the air. So, then I had this old interview with Trump that we had done a year or so ago and so I played that back.”

“Why didn’t you just say it?” Vikki asked. “Why didn’t you just say ‘He canceled and so I got a chance to talk to him a couple of years ago’ …”

“Yeah, I know,” Steve said, adding he wrote Trump a letter of apology.

“I apologized to everybody that I needed to and to the audience, I certainly apologized,” he said. “I didn’t mean to do anything reprehensible. But, I guess I did.”

Tom noted that entertainment radio and news radio formats differ.

“In entertainment radio, interviews are taped a lot and we kind of rework them for time constraints and maybe we didn’t get the answer we really wanted, so we’ll substitute a question to kind of get what we really need,” he said. “So maybe you were in that same Top 40 mindset?”

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“Donald Trump was supposed to call us on … and he didn’t,” McCoy said.
“I promoted it three times on the air. So, then I had this old interview
with Trump that we had done a year or so ago and so I played that back."

McCoy is STILL LYING, that interview was much older than a "year or so ago" which is obvious from the content. Trump's people deny ever having anything scheduled with McCoy, so that's probably a lie as well.

Your readers should know 5 full timers at NewsRadio 1067 lost their jobs so Steve McCoy could be hired. If anyone there denies that, they are absolutely lying. These were employees who worked hard, gave their best, worked countless hours, slept on the floors during snowstorms and were fired because management thought Steve could improve ratings. This sympathy ploy that Vickie Locke and others seem to be on on behalf of McCoy is distasteful. What he did was 100 percent wrong and it ruined any credibility the station may have had and it destroyed the hard work those who worked with him in the morning had done for months. For the AJC to announce as breaking news the day McCoy was fired that he had Parkinson's disease was incredibly bad timing and clearly was released to make everyone feel badly for Steve. How long did McCoy have that in his back pocket ready to be released? Any person with any reasonable intelligence can connect the dots of what was trying to be done there. The Parkinson's disease didn't cause him to do what he did. How about talking to the people who lost their jobs and find out what they are doing now

I hope he has great doctors assisting with this terrible diagnosis. Parkinson's can also severely impact your decision making skills. This is a neurological disorder. My prayers go out to this man and his family.